OREANDA-NEWS. On 14 July 2009 was announced, that 14 July 2009, at 10.00 a.m., - the Exhibition Hall of the Astana Artists Union will see the opening ceremony of a children’s drawings and photos exhibition formatted as a follow-up event of the “The Homeland of Tulips – Kazakhstan” Nationwide Festival held in Kazakhstan from April 2009 through May 2009.

Thanks to children's natural perception-based singular visions, the visitors of the exhibition will get a possibility to view the beauty and diversity of Kazakhstan’s tulips. During exhibition, "The Vanishing World of Tulips" and "The Precious Necklace of Mountains" video films will be demonstrated.

Festival Organizers: The Gulstan National Popular Science Magazine; Gulzar Public Association (Almaty); and such international projects implemented in Kazakhstan by GEF/UNDP as: In-situ Conservation of Kazakhstan’s Mountain Agrobiodiversity; Integrated Conservation of Priority Globally Significant Migratory Bird Wetlands Habitat: a Demonstration on Three Sites; Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the Kazakhstan Sector of the Altai-Sayan Mountain Ecoregion; and Conservation of Steppe Ecosystems in Kazakhstan.

Festival's Partners: Ministry of Education and Science; Ministry of Environment Protection; Forestry and Game Husbandry Committee at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan; UN Development Programme in Kazakhstan (UNDP); Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Association for Conservation of Biodiversity in Kazakhstan; Domestic Policy Department of the Almaty City Akimat (Mayor's Office); Almaty Book House JSC; and Green Salvation Environmental Association.

Festival's Objective: to promote the image of Kazakhstan as a key territory of the area of growth of native types of tulips and to raise critical attitudes towards environmental protection problems in the rising generation for the purposes of steady development and conservation of the country?s vegetation diversity, including of the Red Book of Kazakhstan plants.

The final events of the Festival were held on 5 June 2009 in Almaty where the exhibition was organised to exhibit 522 works by students of Kazakhstan